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Firefox 3 First Look
May 19, 2008, 15 :45 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5043 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"I've loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn't imagine using anything else. But, then Firefox's memory leaks went from annoying me to ticking me off; I started having real stability problems with it on both Windows and Linux; and security holes started appearing far more often. I was about to switch to Safari on Windows and MacOS and Konqueror on Linux, when Mozilla got serious about not just fixing, but rebuilding Firefox. Now, Firefox 3 release candidate 1 was released early. Based on my quick look at it, I may end up sticking with Firefox after all.

"I downloaded Firefox 3 RC 1 yesterday for both my Windows XP SP3 system and one of my openSUSE 10.3 PCs. Both are up-to-day systems without any problems. Installing the browser on both operating systems was a snap. How easy was it? I installed them at the same time with barely a thought..."

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Firefox 3: Color Profile Support (Oh the Pretty, Pretty Colors)(May 01, 2008)
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He missed my favorite feature of Firefox ...   He missed my favorite feature   
anonymous
May 19, 2008, 17:03:11
 
What used to be my 'bookmarks.html&# ...   too "heavyweight", disk-thrashing.   
rickst29
May 19, 2008, 21:49:02
 
sqlite..."fragile and error prone?"...ne ...   Re: too   
David Wollmann
May 20, 2008, 03:58:36
 
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